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C`31 3 6. 0 RECOMMENDATIONS 64 6.1 Community Development staff concurs with the recommendation of the Planning 6 "'1 Commission to exclude the following applications from open house requirements: 66 a. Conditional Use Permits - because conditional uses are already recognized by the 67 City Code as acceptable so long as certain criteria are met; 6 b. Plats and Subdivisions - since the division of land is a fundamental right of a 69 property owner and the City Code already prohibits divisions of property that fail to '7 comply with existing standards; '7 1 c. Zoning Text Amendments - while the uses allowed on a property would change, they '7 2 would still have to be consistent with the purpose and intent of the existing zoning '7 3 district; '7 4 d. Vacations of Public Easements or Rights-of-Way - since a vacation request '7 1 represents a "returning" of land to the property from which it was dedicated and may '7 6 only be approved with the Public Works Director's determination that maintenance of 77 the easement or right-of-way is no longer in the public interest; and 7f',,,`,',`3 e. Variances - although variances represent a departure from the strict application of the '7 9 Code, they only apply to the site requirements and may not introduce uses on to a property that are not allowed by the applicable zoning district. ii 6.2 Based on the suggestions and input offered at the public hearing, the Planning Commission recommends requiring community open house meetings for the following land use applications: a. Comprehensive Plan Amendments - these represent what are perhaps the most fundamental changes in the land use regulations on a property; 6 b. ezonings -while the uses permitted by a different zoning district may be consistent with the guidance of the Comprehensive Plan, they may be dramatically different f1113f111"",1'3 from what has historically been allowed on a property; 9 c. Planned Unit Developments (both new and amended) - since site and use 9(1) requirements are relaxed in exchange for a higher quality of development; and 9 1 d. Interim Use Permits - because the proposed use is explicitly not permitted by the 92 Zoning Ordinance nor supported by the Comprehensive Plan land use designation. 93 6.3 Because the City Code regulates these different applications in separate chapters and 94 sections, the proposed TEXT AMENDMENT includes the following elements as 9 t � ) requirements in each of the sections relevant to Planned Unit Developments (§1008.10)9 96 rezonings (Ch. 101 ) , and interim uses ( §1013.0 ) : 97 a. After reviewing the proposal with the Community Development Director or designee 9 and prior to submitting an application, an applicant shall hold a meeting with 99 members of the community (i.e., an "open. house") to describe the proposal and soli. i.t ii ii feedback. b The applicant shall prepare a printed open house notification/invitation and mail it to 1 2 property owners within 500 feet of the project property as well as members of the 1 3 Planning Commission and City Council; Community Development staff will provide PROJOO I O—PUD-Open-House—RCA-032408.doc Page 3 of 4